Energy Consumption - Major Issue for IT Industry

New report of Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, says that until recently, the energy used by IT equipment has only been of minor importance to computer manufacturers and PC users.

According to the “Low Emission IT - The Internet Meets The Oil Crisis” rise in oil and gas prices, combined with the explosion in the use of information technology in both the home and workplace, resulted focus on the energy required to process and store the megabytes of data created and accessed each day.

The report says that the focus shifts from the sheer processing power of IT equipment to the amount of energy consumed by data centres and networked PCs, niche players in the power management software and hardware market as some of the key beneficiaries of the drive to lower energy IT related energy consumption.

Authors of the report note that there are a number of ways companies can reduce the energy requirements of their IT systems without investing in new equipment.

According to the PRZOOM, the report ‘Low Emission IT – The Internet Meets the Oil Crisis’ reviews a range of green computing initiatives such as Energy Star and the EU Eco-Label. Low emission IT solutions from NEC, Verdiem, Rackable Systems and Intel are also profiled in this report. The report is supplied with a copy CarbonFree’s “101 Ways To Kick The Carbon Habit” – an overview of the carbon emission reduction market, and a catalogue of 101 ways organisations can reduce their carbon footprint.